Morris tribune., 1887-02-09

= or various items On motion of several
senator's other items were increased Mr..
Edmunds moved to strike out of section 3
. which provides for the requirement by con-
utlnnaGOn or lands or material necessary in
the prosecution Of works Of improvements
Tie rrGVisO authorizing the secretary Of war,
when the price asked by the owner shall be
: reasonable, to purchase the property with
out further delay Defeated-Yeas II, nays
e. 81 Inc section and prOvisO We're both
} modified by striking out the words cor ma
. tenaL"
The senate to-day adopted tho conferences
report Oh the -pOlvgamy bill by only
thirteen dissenting votes. Mr.. HOaT, the
only Republican who voted in the negative,
dd SO because the bill abOlishes woman suf-
rage i'll Utah The Democrats who voted
against the bill opposed the measure on con
sLitutional grounds Aside from the general
argument that the law is oppressive and in
lrnGeS the rights OF the citizens, the specific
charge is made that the provision relative to
the Mormon Emigration company is praC-
Teal COnnsCatiOn of private property III viO-
latIOn of the constitution in that the assets
OF this corporation are devoted TO school
purposes and the corporation is practically
tScICated 10 the state. 10 this the sup
portcrs of the bill reply that provision Is
made for the return to the stockholders
OF the entire amount OF their invest
ment and that it is the remainder only
which is devoted to school purposes.
TRANSACTED IN THE HOUSE.
The senate amendments to the invalid pen
sion appropriation bill were nOnconcurred
IN and a conference ordered. MIR. Weaver
| 'Neb( called up the vetoed pension bill OF
Simmons W. Hart The house refused tC
pass the bill over the VetO--li2 to 81. The
house went into committee OF the whole on
the senate amendments to the sundrY civil
bill, and lOG of the 300 pages of The bill
were disposed Of. An evening session was
held for the COnsid Grafton of pension bills
SENATE.
C,I,
two messages TO the senate to-day VetoIng
two acts granting pensions to Charlotte
O'NCal and John Beed. One proposed to
grant a pension to the widow OF Richard
| ONeal, late colonel of the Twenty sixth In.
diana VOlunteers This is vetoed because
ONeal, after his resignation, died Of q
disease not at all related to his military
| service, and because the name is given in.
| correctly i'll the bill. In the case of John
| Reed, the president states that Reed applied
! for Il pension on the ground that he wa!
mainly dependent for support on his sor
| John, who died in the service. The deac
soldiers mother had been granted pension
on the statement that she was widow. The
pension office refused Reeds application be.
cause he had abandoned his family in 1859
| The president concludes:
This case demonstrates the means employed
| in attempts to cheat the government in applica
| tions for pensions, too often successful. The
| all cation OF 1877 of the man who now passes
dIcr, the mother died in 1872, when at that
| time her claim was pending for pension largely
! based upon his abandonment; the affidavit OF
| the lnan who testified that he saw her die IN
| 1872; the efrCnterv Of this unworthy father
| renewing his claim after the detection
| tie mother, and the allegation of the mother
| that she was widow, when IN fact she was ar
| abandoned WIFE, snow the processes which enter
into these claims for pensiOls and the boidne5s
| with which Plans are sometimes con COcted tC
rob the government by actually traficking in
| death, and imposing on the sacred sentiment OF
! patriotism and national gratitude.
PERFORMED IN THE HOUSE
Mr. Cobb, from the conference committee
on the bill repeating the pre- emption, tim
| Der culture and desert land acts reported
| continued disagreement. After a few re-
marks by Mr. Cobb in explanation of the
! di32E1ccment in the course OF which he
| SAID that he was authorized to state that
| the secretary OF the interior to-day stood |
| side by side and shoulder to shoulder with
! Gen. Sparks i'll his administration Of !
| the land office. the further consideration
| OF the report was postponed for the present |
| The house went into committee OF the whole |
for the further consideration Of the senate /!
| amendments to the sundTy civil aDprOpria- |
| ton bill. The senate amendment was con- |
| CURED in approprIating go 600 for the |
| education Of children in Alaska, notwith- |
! standing the recommendation OF the COM |
mittee on appropriations TO the contrary.
| Report of the House Committee on Pensions in |
! Favor of Overriding the Presidents Veto.
The report was unanimous one. Five |
| members of the committee were selected as |
q subcommittee to draft the report These |
| five members divided the presidents mes
| sage into five separate chapters and each one !
! prepared au answer to each chapter. Then |
the contributions of the five members were !
arranged in ia harmonious whole. The re-
port states:
FTIyfNT will fha o+t If
who reads the presidents message. The first is
that objection is made to the bill on any
ground of It's OnstitutiOnality and the right OF
congress to enact the law is not questioned.
The other is that the first section of the bill is
not touched upon by the message and no tntima-
ton IS given by the president as to whether that
section, OF itself embodying it does
an independent proposition, ANA in the pre-
else fern sEecj@!y urged by the secretary
report, meets with his approval or disappruva.
The committee then analyzes the objections Of
the president that the bill is vague in its provi-
sion in that II might apply to various grades OF
disability or dependency, and submits to the
judgment OF the house and country that those
who framed the bill after months of careful con,
have confined the bill to a class that
can be we'll defined as consisting of
their daily labor for support. I'VE regret the
strained Interpretation put on the bill in the
returning it to the house and believe do no
injustice to the executive, when considering the
whole message, to say that if its provisions had
been plain and no question could have been
raised to whether it included
only those unable to labor, he would
not have interpCscd his obje tions.
TIE acts of the president the committee cannot
believe will be endorsed anywhere by the patri-
otto sentiment OF this country" Referring to
the expenditures of money which the enact
ment of this bill tnFo the law would necessltate,
the committee contends that the estimate of
the president Is eXtTavagant, but says that no
consideration of possible cost shall be allowed
come between dependent soldiers and the relief
they are entitled to receive from the country
which they helped to Reducing the whole
question to Ole Of money expediencY 1t seemed
to the committee that the surplus in the treas
ury can he best restored to the people in the
manner proposed in the bill No bonded inter
est or huge monopoly could claim the money
for its own. 1t would go to the people in small
amounts and would circulate among them. The
EIl had been asked for on every
hand. Protests against it had only
from money centcr5 where ALL the money
that did not turn their mill considered as
worse than wasted The committee submitted
that the general tone of the message was to be
fairly taken as expressive in advance of the
presidents purpose to use the executive power
to prevent any further legislation that would
add any new class to the pension list or mqteri-
ally increase the cost thereof based on the
fact that that the country was against
it. The committee was aware that there was q
sentiment of that kind, but insisted that
it. was not controlling one. The committee
10th to believe that the people of the coun-
try were willing for the defenders of the nations
honor, and live to live during their declining
years in misery and want. On the contrary il
believed that the people would prefer that those
who made the laws should err the side OF
mercy rather than the side Of too rigid
economy in the expenditures of the public
money IN this direction, and it further believed
that if taxes, diff
crent kind of taxes was necessary to
meet this demand, they would be cheer
fully paid by the people Holding fast
to these views of duties legislators, and
with cheerful Willingness to answer here and
elsewhere the results of honest labors to re-
lieve the INDECENT soldiers Of common
country, in any section of it. coming they do
from many wars in which we have been engaged,
and with every confidence of n right verdict
upon the whole matter, VIC submit our bill again
for the Judgment of the house, and ask for Il
the most rigid criticism believing it will tend
to strengthen, rather than to weaken it. We
recommend, without dissenting voice in this
committee that the bill do pass, Hotwithstand-
ing the objections of tho president.
why the Delay?
WASHINGTON SDecial Telegram. Feb. 10